Monthly Archives: January 2015

Originally posted on Lost Classics of Teen Lit: 1939-1989: How hot is it down here in the city? Hot enough that reading a book about slowly freezing to death in northern New York State sounds positively refreshing. Background: The novel…

Fifteen, almost sixteen, and on the road- to where? Oh, the contradiction of the “Based on a True Story!” story. This book opens with the standard “The characters and situations in this book are wholly fictional… and are not intended … Continue reading →

Everyone at Missarthur School thought that Lenore James was a loony, and she encouraged them to think it- most of the time. The (fairly good) pulp cover of this Weekly Reader paperback belies the content: although the YA Thriller plot … Continue reading →